An Introduction to English Syntax (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language) - Softcover

Miller, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748633618 ISBN 13: 9780748633616

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2008

Synopsis

REVIEW FROM PREVIOUS EDITION: 'A slim and useful student textbook for English Syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. The book concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.' - The Year's Work in English StudiesIn this revised and fully updated new edition of his popular textbook, Jim Miller discusses the central concepts of syntax which are applied in a wide range of university courses, in business communication, in teaching and in speech therapy. The book deals with concepts which are central to traditional grammar but have been greatly refined over the past forty years: parts of speech and how to recognise them, constructions and their interrelationships, subordinate clauses and how to recognise the different types, subjects and objects, Agents and Patients and other roles

About this title

About the Author

Jim Miller is Professor of Linguistics and Spoken Language at the University of Edinburgh

Review

A slim and useful student textbook for English syntax. Although most of the examples are from English, the book introduces general concepts which provide the necessary tools for a basic syntactic analysis of any language. It concentrates on topics that will remain useful to the student who does not go on to study linguistics but, say, literature or EFL teaching.

(The Year's Work in English Studies)

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0748633618
• ISBN 13: 9780748633616
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224